Play Quarter Tones

Famous quotes containing the words play, quarter and/or tones:

    “Aged ears play truant at his tales,
    And younger hearings are quite ravished,
    So sweet and voluble is his discourse.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I was able to believe for years that going to Madame Swann’s was a vague chimera that I would never attain; after having passed a quarter of an hour there, it was the time at which I did not know her which became to me a chimera and vague, as a possible destroyed by another possible.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “‘Tis not that thy mien is stately,
    ‘Tis not that thy tones are soft;”
    —Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884)